Pressing Charges-A

Overview

This Units focus was through hole soldering so that we could design a handheld gaming system. We were given a circuit board and parts to solder onto the board. Some of these components had polarity and required you to be exact and others had multiple pins in which when soldering you had to worry about bridges. The final part of building the gaming system was to put together the see through case around the circuit

Materials for Project

These are all the pieces that were in the kit to be assembled with the smaller components in the bag on the bottom left

These are all the things that are in the small bag and the other component that will be soldered onto the board

Soldering

Step 1: On the left is all the smaller components that were soldered onto the board first and on the right is the back of the board with the soldering job

Step 2: On the left is the circuit board on which the buttons have been soldered on and on the right is the back of the board showing the amazing solder job I did

Step 3: On the left you can see the USB port and number display have been added to the board and on the right you can see the soldering done for them

Step 4: The chip holder was added and the soldering job on the right (It was a bit of challenge getting the chip into its holder)

Step 5: The last thing to be added was the LED dot matrixes on the left and the soldering on the right

Building the Case

For the final step all the buttons were added, the chip was put in and the case was assembled around the circuit. The case was the hardest step in the project for me since I had to do it without any help from the video since the case was flimsy and the pieces wouldnt stay in thier place. To solve this problem I hot glued the sides together and that allowed me to be able to put the face onto the circuit board.

Video of functioning Gameboy

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